Visible light-induced transition metal catalysis

KPS Cheung, S Sarkar, V Gevorgyan - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
In recent years, visible light-induced transition metal catalysis has emerged as a new
paradigm in organic photocatalysis, which has led to the discovery of unprecedented …

Toolbox for distal C–H bond functionalizations in organic molecules

SK Sinha, S Guin, S Maiti, JP Biswas, S Porey… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal-catalyzed C–H activation has developed a contemporary approach to the
omnipresent area of retrosynthetic disconnection. Scientific researchers have been tempted …

Radical philicity and its role in selective organic transformations

F Parsaee, MC Senarathna, PB Kannangara… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Radical intermediates in organic chemistry lack a full octet of electrons and, thus, are
commonly said to be electron deficient. By denotation, such a statement is technically …

Radical Polarity

JJA Garwood, AD Chen, DA Nagib - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The polarity of a radical intermediate profoundly impacts its reactivity and selectivity. To
quantify this influence and predict its effects, the electrophilicity/nucleophilicity of> 500 …

C–H functionalization reactions enabled by hydrogen atom transfer to carbon-centered radicals

S Sarkar, KPS Cheung, V Gevorgyan - Chemical Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Selective functionalization of ubiquitous unactivated C–H bonds is a continuous quest for
synthetic organic chemists. In addition to transition metal catalysis, which typically operates …

Contemporary methods for generation of aryl radicals

N Kvasovs, V Gevorgyan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The synthetic utility of aryl radicals has been established in the last century, however, their
broad applications were hampered by ineffective generation methods. It was in the last …

Room Temperature Construction of Vicinal Amino Alcohols via Electroreductive Cross-Coupling of N-Heteroarenes and Carbonyls

M Wang, C Zhang, C Ci, H Jiang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite the widespread applications of α-hydroxyalkyl cyclic amines, direct and diverse
access to such a class of unique vicinal amino alcohols still remains, to date, a challenge …

Aryl Radical Enabled, Copper-Catalyzed Sonogashira-Type Cross-Coupling of Alkynes with Alkyl Iodides

X Zeng, C Wang, W Yan, J Rong, Y Song, Z Xiao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite the success of Sonogashira coupling for the synthesis of arylalkynes and
conjugated enynes, the engagement of unactivated alkyl halides in such reactions remains …

Photoinduced Copper‐Catalyzed Asymmetric C(sp3)−H Alkynylation of Cyclic Amines by Intramolecular 1,5‐Hydrogen Atom Transfer

R Guo, H Xiao, S Li, Y Luo, J Bai… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of a mild and general method for C (sp3)− H functionalization of cyclic
amines has been an ongoing challenge. In this work, we describe the copper‐catalyzed …

Diradical generation via relayed proton-coupled electron transfer

Q Shi, Z Pei, J Song, SJ Li, D Wei… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Diradical generation followed by radical–radical cross-coupling is a powerful synthetic tool,
but its detailed mechanism has yet to be established. Herein, we proposed and confirmed a …